This site under reconstruction.
This is going to be a short little post on what I’ve been thinking rather than something on data, Excel, finance or otherwise. It comes about because I will be working on updating the ACA section, there is so much going on in the news, and I’m also trying to keep up with my drawing/painting….
How can we instill empathy? Is it only possible when the person undergoes the same trauma as others before he understands the other person’s viewpoint? I recently read an article about some, not a lot, conservatives are starting to move toward universal health care. The reason is they are starting to understand some of the…
“The value of universities to a capitalist society depends on their ability to resist capitalism, to carve out space for intellectual endeavors that don’t have obvious metrics or market value.” New York Times, “The Misguided Drive to Measure Learning Outcomes”, Molly Worthen, February 23, 2018 I was reading an article about learning and higher education…
I am time crunched right now as I am working on the ACA, so I will stick to some quick notes on a couple of things. How come I haven’t thought of this before? Two or three weeks ago, I was reviewing some numbers, especially looking for things such as “#N/A” or “#VALUE!” or “#DIV/0!”….
“We are approaching the time when machines will be able to outperform humans at almost any task,” Moshe Vardi, a computer science professor at Rice University in Texas, has said. Venture Beat, “A Candid Take on the Future of AI and Job Automation”, Fred Stevens-Smith, 1/20/2018. Some time ago, there had been a spate of…
The gorilla joke is either a great meme or “a sign of the imminent collapse of critical thought and public discourse”. New York Times, “Let’s Talk About the Gorilla Channel For One More Day”, Vivian Wang, 1/6/2018. There’s been a couple of articles on topics of social media, critical thinking and how to communicate with people…